Stacey Solomon has admitted she struggled with motherhood when she was 17.
The mum-of-four, 32, floods her Instagram page with proud pics of her kids - but parenthood hasn't always been easy for the much-loved star.
The Loose Women host, who is married to Joe Swash, gave birth to her first child Zachary in 2008.
Stacey then went on to have sons Leighton, 12, Rex, two and daughter Rose, who was born on the presenter's birthday last year.
Speaking about becoming a mum for the first time, Stacey said: "I almost felt violated giving birth. People tell you that you’ll feel this rush of love and happiness the minute it comes out, and I struggled to find that.
"I questioned who I was, my morals. I thought: ‘Why didn’t I immediately love this human? What’s wrong with me?’”
Stacey also opened up about her 'difficult' relationship with breastfeeding, admitting: “Breastfeeding had a lot to do with it. I was a teenage girl, so to get my boobs out in front of people just felt gross," reports the Guardian.
Last year, the Sort Your Life Out star admitted she felt 'ashamed' to be pregnant at 17.
Speaking on Loose Women, she revealed: "I just remember feeling so ashamed. I know that sounds awful but when I was pregnant with Zach, all I felt the whole way through was shame.
"I looked like a baby as well. I looked about six. I think people just looked and were like, 'ugh, why is she pregnant?' Maybe it's a bit of a trauma I just haven't addressed."
Stacey has previously said her parents didn't put any pressure on her when she told them she was pregnant.
She shared: "Even though they were really upset with me, and hurt and disappointed, they never told me whether I should go ahead and have the baby or not have the baby.
"Which at the time was absolute turmoil because all I wanted was for my mum and dad to tell me what to do."
The star's mum, Fiona, opened up about her daughter's teenage years on the ITV show in 2017.
During her appearance on Loose Women, in which she sat next to her Stacey, she admitted the pair had had a strained relationship.
Fiona said: "I got to a stage where I thought, 'What have I done, I must have been a terrible mother.' It wasn't just Stacey, I have another daughter. Both of my girls when they went through teenage years, it really was... tearaways."
However, Stacey's mum has been by her daughter's side throughout the birth of all four of her children and relishes her role as a doting grandmother.
